GAME DAY #29: Senators @ Lightning - 7:30pm - Thursday Dec. 10 2015

SensHulk

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Number of posts : 8470Registration date : 2009-06-22

There is definitely a question of sustainability where sens haven't been able to show they can play the complete game that's required to be an elite team. I also hope their defensive game improves. Shots against will catch up eventually. Too many giveaways will do that

spader

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Number of posts : 10093Registration date : 2009-07-09

wprager wrote:I think that second statement applies equally to the Sens. We are still waiting for a few players to wake up and smell the coffee (Zibanejad, Lazar, Cowen, Wiercioch, Michalek and even, to a lesser extent, Pageau and Ceci).

I'm pretty happy with JGP. He's on pace for ~20 goals and he currently leads the league in shorties. He's doing just fine.

tim1_2

SeawaySensFan wrote:I think multiple trades are what this team needs. Now!

Not according to Mr. Bryan Murray who gave quite the interview yesterday afternoon to Mendes on TSN 1200.

Anyway, yeah, this game was a stinker. Those simultaneous minor penalties that gave the Lightning a full two minute 5 on 3 put us behind the 8-ball, and we didn't really recover. The annoying thing was that both the calls (on Boro and Wideman) were correct, so we can't even blame the refs.

It's a game like this where we miss Clarkie Mac and 9MM...both good PKers in addition to providing a bit of secondary scoring which is important when the big guns aren't finding the net.